Monday, March 7, 2011

Perhaps the article below will explain why I hope this secularist in a Muslim world is still in power tomorrow.

Let's look how the US intervened in Muslim countries to give people "freedom" and "democracy":

Kosovo: "We" intervened to prevent "ethnic cleansing" against Muslims. Now the Muslims are slaughtering Christians there.

Iraq: within a year of "our" "victory" over Saddam Hussein, Christians who once thrived under that dictator were either dead or had been exiled (most of the survivors of the holocaust triggered by the Western allies live in Sweden today and Iraq is in chaos);

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As Gas Prices Rise, Is It Time to 'Drill, Baby, Drill'?

By Bradley Blakeman

Published March 07, 2011

| FoxNews.com

With unrest and turmoil in oil-producing Middle East and North African countries upon which America heavily relies for our domestic oil consumption and with gas prices inching toward $4.00 a gallon, now is the time to drastically increase America’s own oil production.

Even before the Middle East and North African government meltdowns, many experts were predicting $4 a gallon gas in 2011 and $5 a gallon gas in 2012.

How will the unrest in Libya, for instance, affect world gas prices? Well, although the United States does not buy much oil from Libya...Europe does.

I post articles because I think they are of interest. Doing so doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree (or disagree) with every—or any—opinion in the posted article. Help your friends and relatives stay informed by passing the digest on.

Excerpt: Real decisions have to be made with limited information by people whose crystal balls are cloudy. And those decisions need to be made when they can still affect the outcome of events. A Perfect Plan, decided after the action is over, is useless. A timely decision that is only approximately correct, but that is made in time to impact the outcome favorably, is worth at least 1,000 Perfect Plans that are all made too late to change anything. (Ron “Count” Pittenger is one of my longest-suffering friends, a Marine comrade since 1964, a fine writer, a once-great folk singer, and a frequent contributor to this blog. He was even with me the night I ended up in the Navy Shore Patrol drunk tank, but we got separated, and he got away. I shouldn’t have had the 15th drink.)

Excerpt: “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”

Cons with clout. They’ll fit right in, here in Blagobamaville. Giving them a second chance means turning away a non-felon looking for a first chance. ~Bob. Excerpt: One of them smuggled cocaine from Jamaica about a decade ago. Another was a carjacker. A third was convicted in the shooting of two Chicago cops in the 1970s, hitting one of them in the face. They are among 139 people who got hired by the City of Chicago over the past two years despite having been convicted of crimes. That’s according to a list of all of the city’s hires of ex-cons in 2009 and 2010 obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Mayor Daley has said ex-offenders deserve a second chance and has made that his policy at City Hall. Those hired under that policy include one person convicted of a crime who’d been on the “clout list” that was made public during the trial of Daley’s former patronage chief, Robert Sorich. Sorich went to prison after being convicted in federal court in 2006 of overseeing an illegal hiring scheme that gave city jobs and promotions to people with clout. “Of course I needed clout to get on,” acknowledged the ex-con, speaking only on the condition of anonymity.

As more sober minds consider ways to keep the Middle East from falling into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood, Barack Obama is “fighting terrorism” by reaching out to the leader of one of the Brotherhood’s American creations. In the process, a White House official revealed that radical Muslims frequently advise the White House office headed by the president’s top adviser and alter ego, Valerie Jarrett.

Security Advisor McDonough Meets with Hamas Support Entity

It is being reported that on Sunday, March 6th, Denis McDonough, the Deputy National Security Advisor to the President of the United States attended the ADAMS Interfaith/Government Summit in Sterling, Virginia.
The implications of this are frightening and shocking – and may be criminal.

ADAMS (All Dulles Area Muslim Society) is led by its Executive Director, Mohammad Majid. Majid is also the President of the largest Muslim Brotherhood / Hamas support entity in North America – the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).

Napolitano Failing On Homeland Border SecurityObama’s Federal Government Is Not Doing Its Job To Secure the Border

ALERT: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Napolitano says that the U.S. southern border is “more secure than ever before.” She cannot be serious! A recent report released by her own DHS states that Homeland Security is only “achieving varying levels of operational control of 44% of the southwest border.”

Ms. Napolitano has set low standards for herself. In the rest of the United States 44% is an “F” -- that's a failing grade. But only politicians and bureaucrats in Washington tout a truly sad statistic and believe that the BEST this country can achieve in securing its own border is “44% operational control” -- when that's not even halfway acceptable.
What is “operational control” anyway? A few more pages into the DHS report shows exactly what “operational control” is. Whenever they refer to “operational control” they are in fact only referring to places on the border where there is even a DHS attempt to monitor. The DHS report goes on to say that only 15% of the border is actually defined as “controlled.” In other words, ONLY 44% of the actual border is even on the plate for security, and of that 44% ONLY a measly 15% is actually an area where an illegal alien has a “high probability of apprehension.”

States Have no Rights According to Many State Legislators
State Nullification is designed to uphold, protect and preserve the US Constitution and the compact between the states. If nullification does not work, secession is the last remaining remedy for states and people who no longer wish to live under the boot of the federal government. The federal government simply must be forced to.......http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams136.htm
by JB Williams

Why Governor Scott Walker Is Right
Unlike private sector employees whose wages reflect the value of their services to willing buyers in a free market, public sector employees feed off the taxed wages of those who generate wealth in our society. Consequently, public sector employees have a certain fiduciary duty to taxpayers that is unique. Because the payment of taxes is obligatory, not volitional, public employee service, correspondingly, must be.....http://www.newswithviews.com/Emord/jonathan180.htm
by Attorney Jonathan Emord

Our Department of Education and School Systems are failing America! They are teaching political correctness and sexual eduation over the things America's children need to continue the successes of this great nation!

This is a terrific biography of the man it calls, with justification, "the most important officer in the history of the United States Marine Corps." Brute Krulak was my commanding general when I was on Okinawa and in Vietnam, though, thankfully, Cpl. Hall never did anything brave or disastrous enough to come to his attention. We all knew he was a demanding perfectionist, a brilliant thinker and very short--God help the Marine who looked down at him during an inspection. Are you interested in WWII? It was Brute who pushed development of the Higgins boat, which Ike said won the war. Brute was the driving force behind the "Chowder Society" which saved not only the Marine Corps, but prevented the imposition of a military strongman who reported only to the president, a threat to American democracy. Korea? Brute told the Army that a Marine brigade could sail in five days, when the Army was being pushed back--and delivered, saving the Pusan Perimeter. He was high in the councils planning the Inchon landing for Macarthur, and pioneered helicopters and vertical envelopment, a revolutionary tactic the Army would adopt from him for Vietnam. He developed the strategy of protecting villagers with CAP units and was the only senior general to tell Lyndon Johnson his and Westmoreland's strategy was failing--which cost him a fourth star and the position of Commandant of the Corps--which his son would later hold. Nor does the book neglect Brute's hero-size flaws. The only glaring error I noted was the author saying the Marines lost more men on Iwo Jima than the Japanese. We took more casualties--30,000 to 22,000. But most of the 22,000 were dead, while the Marines and Navy personnel had about 6,800 killed. That's still a horrible butcher's bill, but not more than the enemy paid in "lost." Still, Coram is a fine writer--I finished the book in two days. And I highly recommend it.

Excerpt: The pristine views from several New Hampshire peaks will be inaccessible to hikers and snowmobilers thanks to a delightful wind-farm project that will clear-cut a set of mountaintops. A couple of us rode over the peak yesterday and the very top was closed due to logging. We stopped to inquire and were told they were clearing the top, down to the 2700 ft elevation for the installation of Wind Towers. 2700 feet is roughly where the "T" intersection (134/110) is on the South side of the peak. They said they were clearing it all by April 1st, and that 30 Wind Towers were being installed in the area (maybe 30 including those at this location)..